The YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

Vol. LV1 September 22, 1908 No. 38

From pointing by Breton " SONG OF THE LARK " 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SEPTEMBER 22, 1908

ous for her own way. Whenever one meets her, one findsher her cheerful,of girl stwhee,et xc qeupiteit, refined, G 1 d ande nAge the 11f sort is exception.— The .

The Lost Rose Adulterated Commendation THEY tell in an old-time legend Of the Scottish soldier-king YES, I had a pretty good time staying with Aunt Whose name is a living spell to-day Maria," admitted the small boy when questioned con- In the songs his people sing, How once when the war was fiercest, cerning his visit. There was a doubtful note in his And the mountain streams ran red, answer that awakened curiosity in the mother. A careless captain marked not Where the passing foemen sped; " She said you were a good boy," she remarked, Unchecked they thundered onward, suggestively. And the chance of the hour went by, " Ye-s," with the same hesitating tone. Then the And the songs of the glen and moor-side Keep the tale of the king's reply, method of explanation grew clear, and the little face When his friend stood shamed before him, brightened. " But you see Aunt Maria sort of mixes Silent with downcast head, up her praising with her scolds, and you don't 'zactly " Thou hast lost a rose from thy chaplet, Yonder," the monarch said. know which it tastes most of. When I thought I'd s'prise her by picking the currants for supper, she said : No menace of sharp reproaches, No taunt with a fiery sting, ' Now that's a good boy; that's a real help. Why can't Could strike to the conscience keener you be thoughtful like that all the time 'stead of leav- Than the quaint, scant words of the king. ing me to pick 'em myself yesterday ? ' When I just Out of the long-hushed battle, And the silent years gone by, flew upstairs to get her thimble, she thanked me, but They wake with the living challenge she said why wasn't I quick to notice all the time? Of a truth too stern to die; She makes you feel 's if you couldn't be glad 'bout And the strife on the mist-clad mountains, And the struggle of desperate men, being good to-day 'cause you're so 'shamed you wasn't Grow real to us who are fighting better yesterday, and it sort of makes you lonesome." And failing as one failed then,— Aunt Maria's name is legion, and she goes compla- For our foes slip past unheeded, And the chance of our battle goes, cently on her way scattering discomfort and discour- And the wreaths we would lay before our King agement without the least idea of the harm she is do- Are missing many a rose. ing. Many a mistress who wonders why her servants They tell in the ancient story, lack heart and interest might find an explanation in the And the songs the old wives sing, fact that her commendations always degenerate into How victory crowned the banners Of the well-loved warrior-king; faultfinding. Teachers and parents who are quite sure And his people thronged and hailed him, they always praise where praise is due, and wonder And claimed him as their own, that they awaken no enthusiasm for well-doing, may And the stormy years of Scotland Grew quiet about his throne; find, if they pause to consider, that they usually spoil But yet, to the end, I wonder the sweet with an admixture of bitterness. Give If some one's heart was sore thanks and praise whenever they can conscientiously At the chance of serving the soldier-prince Which went to. come no more? be given ; and when reproof is needed, let it have its And I wonder if heaven will be as bright own time and place.— The New Guide. To the heart whose sloth has cost The battle he might have won for Christ, And the rose of a triumph lost? — Mable Earle. The Manners of Our Girls I NOTICE among the girls of the better educated classes a much more pronounced deference for their elders and PARIS, France, has a dog dentist, who is doing a a much more winsome yielding to their mothers, than flourishing business. Dogs belonging to wealthy peo- the mothers themselves used to show. At heart our ple are having gold fillings put in, besides much other American young woman has always been loyal and lov- expensive dental work. ing, willing to bear burdens, willing to take a daugh- ter's full share in the family affairs. But mothers were " CLEANING fluids, when used to remove spots, often of old prone to abdicate early in life. The entertain- leave a ring, and this may be avoided by putting a ment of guests, the choice of dress, the home manage- thick pad of absorbent cotton under the goods to be ment, aside from the kitchen, was largely given over to cleaned. Holding the ring over the steam from a the young ladies ; and at one time, chaperonage was teakettle often causes it to disappear." flouted as both needless and an insult to girls who were " VANDERBILT ferried his own boat ; Astor sold ap- quite capable of looking out for themselves. Grad- ples in the streets ; Gould was a mouse-trap vender ; ually a change has come to pass, as society becomes less Stewart a school-teacher ; Lincoln a railsplitter ; Edson crude, and a leisure class has set an example to our a newsboy ; Ryan a clerk in a drygoods store ; Harri- hard-working people. The chaperone is no longer re- man a preacher's boy ; H. H. Rogers a grocer's delivery sented. She is a welcome and usual addition to parties roustabout ; and Carnegie was a telegraph messenger." of young people, and girls would be ashamed to treat their mothers with anything approaching rudeness. FORTY thousand Turks from this country are ex- Mama's opinion is asked, mama gives or withholds pected to return to their home land in response to an her consent to requests, and mademoiselle acquiesces invitation given by the Turkish reform party to all most pleasantly. Turks in any country to return, under promise of The well-bred girl does not take the lead in conver- " safety and individual liberty, freedom of speech, free- sation, nor make herself the central figure in a com- dom of the press, freedom of religious belief and prac- pany. She is not disagreeably assertive, nor clamor- tise. The Youth's Instructor VoL. LVI TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 22, 1908 No. 38

The ephemeral pleasures of these worldly things leave but an aching void behind. Yet Satan is an adept at keeping up appearances. In order to do this he must find a continuous stream of young men and women, who occupy the front of the stage while their God-given young strength and ability is being con- The Martyr sumed on the altar of this world's lust and pleasures. Wan is this fearful clamor that bursts upon the ear? Our young people should stand behind the scenes, and What is that dreadful vision in yonder market-place? see those same young folk of the previous hour cast A mad and cruel rabble are jostling, crowding near out on Satan's great scrap-heap, physical, mental, and A humble Christian pilgrim, with pale but peaceful face. moral wrecks. But he skilfully turns the mind of the Dark was the noisome dungeon where he was laid in chains, young away from the scene. Yet the undertones of And scant the food and loathesome they brought him there to eat, misery, swelling ever louder, can be heard if we will And horrid were the tortures that filled his bones with pains, but listen. On that great scrap-heap we see blasted And cruel were the irons that galled his hands and feet. hopes, ruined characters, harvests of bitter, barren re- With wicked words they mocked him, and bade him to deny grets. Youth, started on life's pathway with the most The Lord of Life, who suffered and died for his poor sake; flattering prospects, are there the hopeless, helpless Then, finding him unwavering, they led him forth to die, slaves of Satan, with physical powers weakened, men- Dressed him in garb fantastic, and bound him to the stake. tal capacity wrecked, spiritual sensibilities wholly be- High, higher yet the fagots are piled the saint about; numbed. The flames are leaping 'round him; but, hark! I hear him sing! The grace of God can yet save them. But the And ere his breath he yieldeth, he triumphs with a shout,— chances are that their deaf ears and weakened wills " 0 grave! where is thy victory? 0 death! where is thy are unable to hear and heed the heavenly voice. Yet sting? " ELIZABETH ROSSER. even if they yield to God, the remainder of their mor- tal life will likely be a great struggle against evil appetites, the strength of which they would never have Special Mention of the Young known had not drunk so deeply of the waters of IN last week's study of 1 John 2: 14-17, we learned the knowledge of evil. And though they get the vic- that our Father in heaven has given three reasons for tory here, they are mere dwarfs and weaklings beside the special mention that he sends to the young,—" Be- what they might have been. cause ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in And here is the lesson, for us. Why have truths you, and ye have overcome the wicked one." Then been committed to Seventh-day Adventist young peo- within the compass of one short sentence is his ex- ple, which, if faithfully carried out, will keep them hortation, " Love not the world, neither the things from such an end? Why are the principles of healthful that are in the world." He knows the worthlessness of living given to us? Why are tobacco, alcoholic bever- the gilt with which Satan has covered the deformities ages, and body- and soul-destroying drugs forbidden ? of sin, the cruelty of the thorns hidden so skilfully be- Why are novel-reading and dancing and vain outward neath'the roses. In this exhortation he does not ask us adorning under the ban? Is it not because this closing to give up anything that will make us happy. By " the work is the greatest work since the days of the apostles, things that are in the world," he does not mean pleas- and will therefore require men and women with sound ant things. His ideal child is not one who is gloomy, physical bodies, great mental capacity, and undimmed going about with his head down like a bulrush. He spiritual vision ? Men of thought and action are called takes not one true pleasure from us. Instead, he knows for to meet the call of the hour; men, who can bear the pitfalls, the course that will bring barrenness of responsibilities, who can become leaders in great en- soul, the counterfeit pleasures that leave pain and sad- terprises, who can successfully influence multitudes to- ness as their only legacy ; and so he lovingly warns our ward the path of righteousness. inexperience. God wants strong physical bodies instead of weak He then sets forth the simple reasonableness of this ones ; mental capacity developed to the fullest extent exhortation in a wonderfully comprehensive threefold of its possibilities, instead of dwarfed and stunted ; summary of all the evil that is in the world : (I) " The spiritual vision reflecting the brightness of the Father's lusts of the flesh," in which is included every wrong glory, instead of that which is darkened and dimmed passion, every inordinate desire of the appetite; (2) by sin. Will not our young people then gladly, will- " the lust of the eyes,"— that ruinous vanity, of which ingly eschew all the evils of this world, and live a the abuse of the looking-glass is the type, manifesting life wholly consecrated to God? Older men and itself in so many ways to the degradation of the soul ; women to-day weep over powers wasted, and would and, (3) " the pride of life,"— that desire for worldly give all they possess, could they stand where you stand, society, that longing to stand high in the opinions of and have the opportunities that are yours. Then be our fellow men, to achieve some great thing in some wise, and place your all in the Father's hand, to be one of this world's varied professions. These are the developed and used when and where and as he wills. things which have led multitudes of youth away from GEO. F. ENocH. God, and drowned their souls in perdition. Satara, India. 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SEPTEMBER 22, 19o8

their homes. These are rather above the average, as both the children and their parents are reared within the influence of other missions. Pictures Nos. 4 and 5 show the pupils, teachers, and school-houses. When they leave the schoolroom, they go out to live with their dogs and pigs and pots, and to talk of their neigh- bors, and whether their relish, to be eaten with their corn-meal porridge, shall be worms or weeds or rats. The boys and girls will anxiously discuss how they may find a way to get food and colored cloth and blankets with the least possible work. When the day ends, boys and girls lie down with parents and babies, pots and dirt, close to the fire in the middle of the earth floor of the one-room house. The sleeper's body and head are wrapped in a dirty cotton cloth to protect him from insects and cold. Is it to be wondered at that these people are low in the human scale? How may we expect them to respond to our teaching? But The Young People and Children of Nyassaland they do respond' in a remarkable way. Sixteen of YOUR editor has asked me if the young people of them were baptized lately. God has put into their Africa respond to the work of our teachers for them. hearts a desire for learning. They seem instinctively As I think of that matter this morning, I am impressed to love the Bible. In many ways they are slow to that it is only the young who do respond to our efforts. learn ; and I wonder that they learn even as quickly Look at the photos that I send with this article. These as they do. are pictures of some of our schools in Nyassaland. These children in picture No. I repeated the Beati- And if a picture were made of our Sabbath meetings, tudes (Matt. 5 : I) perfectly, also the Lord's you would not see much Prayer, when I visited their difference in the propor- school a few days ago. tion of young people in They are apt at memori- attendance. zing. They love to sing As in all lands where hymns. Picture No. 5 this message has gone, shows Malinki, our head in the youth is bound teacher in our three schools up our greatest hope of of that district, leading the proclaiming the message children in the song, quickly to the world. " Come to Jesus." This Please do not read into and most of their singing is these words the false in Mang'anga language. idea that we can get But one class surprised me along without the coun- by singing, " God Made the sel and guidance of men Lilies " and " They Cruci- and women of riper ex- fied My Saviour," very perience in this message. nicely in English. Mone- Next to God's help we kera is the central school, need the latter above all other thinKs. ,But few of and the other two schools came there for the closing the old and middle-aged of these heathen lands seem exercises. Nearly one hundred came, and twenty or able to grope their way out of darkness. It would more were kept away by different causes. Out of the appear that the words of Jesus : " Straight is the gate ; one hundred twenty enrolled in the three schools, forty- and narrow is the way, . . . and few there be that four received presents for regular attendance. Six had find it," apply especially to them. But I am glad there not missed a day in three months, fourteen attended are some beautiful exceptions to this' rule. two months 'regularly, and twenty, one month. This In a letter already sent to the INSTRUCTOR, I told is good for Africa. you something of the daily work of the mission and the school. Just here it occurs to me that a column of the INSTRUCTOR might profitably be devoted to cor- respondence, or questions and answers, between our young people and our missionaries. Nothing has en- couraged me more than the recent Missionary Volun- teer movement among our youth. Let this grand move grow and swell as a tidal wave until every nation, kindred, tongue, and people shall have a large number of our consecrated youth ! It may be that your editor will consider my suggestion for a Missionary Question column. I think it would be a real pleasure for us who are among the heathen to answer your definite questions concerning them. I shall tell you something of the home life of the children and youth here. Notice pictures Nos. 1, 2, and 3. These are children of our Monekera out-station and

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Picture No. 4 shows the three schools, each with its Throwing rice is a symbol of fruitfulness and plenty, teacher standing among the pupils, and the grass from the general use of rice as food. school-house in the rear. The teacher at the right in When a woman marries, she takes her husband's front is Joseph, the head teacher of our new out-sta- name, a custom that we can trace back tolZoman times. tion at Matandane. Having made these photos my- When Julia married Pompey, her name became Julia self, I assure you that they correctly represent village of Pompey. Modern women drcip the " of " in the school life among some of the young people of East name ; and if Julia lived to-day, she would be called Central Africa. I hope that you will find in the pic- simply Julia Pompey.— Selected.

Day by Day . How shall I live to-day — This truly would I know,— Not once to go astray, But good seed sow. 'Twould not be much to sleep; I fear not when or how, If when the shadows creep, His hand be on my brow. But let me live my day With tare as God will see, And think and do and say What will forever be A record bright to stay Eternally. MRS. PAULINE ALDERMAN.

Why God Tests Us tures and in this letter some suggestions that will help AN earnest Christian blacksmith was approached by you in your preparation for God's great, white har- an intelligent unbeliever with the question, " Why is vest-field. it you have so much trouble ? " I have been watching Our hearts are gladdened to learn that two young you. Since you joined the church, and began to `walk workers are on the way to help us here, Brother Sam square,' and seem to love everybody, you have had Konigmacher and wife, from St. Helena, California, twice as many trials and accidents as you had before. will receive a most hearty welcome. And a young I thought that when a man gave himself to God, his brother of Belingham, Washington, writes me that he troubles were over. Isn't that what the parsons tell has given half of his first month's salary to support a us ? " native teacher here. Such devotion greatly encourages With a thoughtful but glowing face the blacksmith us. JOEL C. ROGERS. replied : " Do you see this piece of iron ? It is for the Cholo, Nyassaland. springs of a carriage. I have been ' tempering' it for some time. To do this I heat it red-hot and then plunge Hearing the Cry of Distress it in a tub of ice-cold water. This I do many times. A FRIEND of mine said to a life-saver at Newport, If I find it is taking ' tempering,' I beat and hammer it Rhode Island, " How can you tell when a person is in unmercifully. In getting the right piece of iron I need of help when there are thousands of bathers on the beach and in the water making a perfect hub-bub of noises ? " The life-saver replied : " No matter how great the noise and confusion, there has never been a single time when I could not distinguish the cry of distress above it all. I can always tell it." That is exactly like God. In the midst of the Babel and confu- sion, he never fails to hear the soul that cries out to him for help amid the breakers and storms of life. Selected.

Wedding Customs Do you know why the wedding-ring is worn on the left third finger? When Christianity became common. the priest, or in some cases the groom, first put the ring on the thumb, saying, " In the name of the " Father ; " then on the forefinger, adding, " In the found several that were too brittle to take temper ; name of the Son ; " then on the second finger, continu- they cracked the first blow I struck. So I threw them ing, " In the name of the Holy Ghost ; " and finally on on the scrap-pile. Those scraps are worth about a the third finger, with " Amen," and there it remained. cent a pound ; this carriage spring is very valuable." The custom of throwing old shoes at a wedding He paused, and his listener nodded. The black- originated in the old Jewish custom of handing to the smith continued : " God saves us for something more purchaser of land an old shoe, as a token of surrender, than to have a good time — that's the way I see it. or renunciation. So at a wedding the bride's father We have the good time all right, for God's smile means gave a shoe to the husband, or threw it after him, to heaven. But he wants us for service, just as I want signify that they surrendered to him all authority over this piece of iron. And he has to put the ' temper' of their daughter. Christ in us by testing us with trials."— Selected. THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SEPTEMBER 22, 1908

in this country during the twelve months. Did you get your share? Millions to Save a Minute This has become one of the standard mottoes of the shoe and leather industry. It is estimated that the great shoe factories are spending nearly one million The Paris Bath-Peddler dollars each year in the effort to develop a new and rapid tannage for sole-leather. Skilled chemists are THERE are in Paris many houses that are bathless, working ceaselessly in the testing of new processes in more, perhaps, than in American and English cities. this direction ; and one firm has succeeded to such an This is, of course, a great inconvenience to the inhabit- extent that it is producing a finished sole-leather by ants, and an ingenious Frenchman, realizing this, goes chromic methods in less than three days. through the streets with a bath outfit which he lets Chrome, in itself, is a hard, brittle, grayish white on hire to any one who cares to pay the small fee of metal, crystalizing like common alum. Were it not thirty-five cents he demands, and, moreover, he sup- for its various compounds, such as lead chromate and plies the necessary hot water.— Popular Mechanics. potassium chromate, it would be practically worthless,

• -•111.r • but these produce the most brilliant coloring materials known to scientists. Alongside of the famous chrome Romance of the Shoe green, chrome yellow and chrome red, which have OPEN-MOUTHED admiration followed him. Even the made possible the wonderful stained-glass effects of courtiers turned staring, envious eyes toward the modern decorators, the powerful dye has now taken its crowning detail of his dazzling costume — not the place as the leading element in the shoe-tanning in- long-plumed hat with its jaunty tilt, but the remarkable dustry. shoes which graced his ankles. And they were re- More than ten million dollars was spent before the markable in more ways than one — those buff leather chromic process for the tanning of shoe-leather was boots of Sir Walter Raleigh's. mastered ; even expensive electrical and X-Ray ex- Examine them well as he trips daintily forward in periments were conducted without avail. It remained answer to the beckoning finger of Queen Elizabeth, for the French chemist, Schultz, to hit upon the secret. and behold the highest-priced shoes in history ! What In a visit to a dye-shop, the chromic formula for col- would you say if the clerk should hand you a bill of oring feathers caught his attention, and he dropped a thirty thousand dollars for one pair of shoes? And section of calfskin into the mixture. When it was yet this was the approximate gap which the aforesaid withdrawn, it was dyed perfectly. Foederer, of Phila- boots made in the gallant Sir Walter's bank account. delphia, experimenting in the same direction with kid Of the softest imported leather, decorated with deli- skins, produced a perfectly tanned strip of leather from cate hand embroidery, they were trimmed moreover the vat, with the vigorous exclamation : " Vici ! Vici! " with real lace ; and to complete their beauty, set with (I conquer!) sparkling gems. Passing two centuries, to what figure The " vici kid " to which the name was thus given do the thirty-thousand-dollar boots of Sir Walter's has made more millionaires than any other branch of shrivel in the shoemaker's handiwork to-day? Have the shoe industry. you ever been asked to try on a pair of fifty-dollar The discovery of a similar process for the tanning of shoes? Even one-hundred-dollar shoes are finding a sole-leather is perhaps the most important single prob- ready sale. lem before the shoe manufacturer of the present day. You would perhaps look in vain for a resemblance Shoes and Appetite between the ultra fine footwear of to-day and Robin- The modern shoemaker faces a constantly shifting son Crusoe's home-made boots, and yet they were both circle of questions. He must even deal with the fashioned of the same material,— goatskins. From world's appetite. What a billion and a half people on the grazing goat herds of India are obtained the skins the globe eat becomes a very pertinent factor• in the for the most expensive shoes that are manufactured. task of producing their footwear. When the demand Last year's shipments to American factories were for meat decreases, the shoe manufacturer at once feels valued at more than eleven million dollars. an unpleasant stringency in the hide market. Last Ten thousand pairs of shoes are produced daily from year, Germany's appetite for meat substantially de- a single Eastern factory. Every twenty-four hours, creased. Although the population of the country in- it uses the hides and skins of seventy-eight hundred creased by nine hundred thousand, the demand for kids, three hundred horses and colts, three hundred meat showed a decided falling off. The people reso- calves, and four hundred twenty-five steers. And this lutely turned away from fresh meats, and the shoe is but one factory of the thousands that are engaged manufacturers were almost in despair. in the big task of making footwear for the world. The Shoe and the Sun The value of the boot and shoe output of the United Again, the shoeman must be on good terms with Old States for 1906 reached the astounding total of $320,- Sol. The sun can deal a heavy blow at his business, 107458 — nearly one million dollars a day. or can give it an effective boost. To illustrate : patent From the six largest American shoe factories, over leather must be subjected to the rays of the sun for twenty-five million pairs of shoes were produced last a lengthy period before it can be utilized. Last winter year. Deducting the annual boot and shoe exports of in the Eastern States was unusually cloudy, and as a this country, amounting to something over ten million result, the patent leather output of many factories was dollars, from the total national product for 1906, the cut at least in half. American people spent more than three hundred forty The average life of a pair of shoes, so far as its million dollars for footwear during the year. actual wear is concerned, may be only a few months, Allowing an average value of two dollars, over one but the leather which enters into its manufacture may hundred seventy million pairs of shoes were purchased endure for centuries. In the British Museum are speci- SEPTEMBER 22, 19o8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 7

mens of boots worn by the knights of the Middle Ages, perous ranchero to pay twenty-five dollars for his — with the leather still in excellent condition. When boots. Most of the work is done by hand, and the an abandoned copper mine in Chili was opened re- leather is often ornamented with fancy designs and cently, tools of a prehistoric people were found, esti- scallops. The heel is frequently two inches in height, mated to be more than one thousand years old, and and curved inward from the back, descending to a they were bound together with leathern thongs which small almost pointed bottom, which is driven into the were as strong and sturdy as when first cut, over ten earth for a brace when a bucking bronco is at the other centuries ago. end of the lasso. A large shoe machinery company in the East has The production of rubbers in this country last year, on exhibition boots and shoes which were worn in the amounted to over seventy million dollars. In ten years, fifteenth century, with the leather as good as ever, and between 188o and 189o, the value of rubber footwear practically every large factory in the East has in its more than doubled — in the latter year totaling over show-cases shoes from one hundred to two hundred eighteen million dollars, and being more than quad- years in age. rupled again in last year's report. Twenty-two firms A Philadelphia shoe firm announces that it has in its in this country are engaged in the exclusive manufac- employ workmen who can produce stitches so fine that ture of rubber boots and. overshoes. it is necessary to use a magnifying glass to detect them Africa bought two hundred thousand dollars' worth accurately, and among shoe men the statement, incredi- of shoes from American manufacturers last year, and ble as it may seem, is readily believed. Microscopes will increase the record fifty per cent this year. Oce- are made use of by every factory in turning out the anica and the islands of the Pacific ordered consign- more valuable classes of footwear. Every shoe is sub- ments amounting to one hundred thousand dollars. jected to as critical examination under the magnifying The American shoe bill of the Philippines ran to nearly glass as a delicate watch ; and a defect which a layman two hundred thousand dollars. All in all, the " un- would not notice, results in the pair being thrown aside, civilized " portion of the globe spent over five million to figure in the bargain-counter sales of injured goods dollars for American-made shoes during the year, the that have become a feature of every large concern. shipments, in many cases, being forwarded to the heart The shoe industry is essentially a grouping of small of the jungle. details. This fact is emphasized even in the colors of The Mammoth Supply of Hides and Skins the world's shoe fashions. Twenty-seven different The Argentine Republic sent five million dollars' shades of " golden-brown " shoes, alone, are on the worth of cattle skins to American shoe merchants last market. And this is but one of the numberless varie- year; India over two million dollars worth; Canada, ties of brown footwear. For instance, there are shoes two million three hundred thirty thousand dollars ; of " saddler's brown," " chocolate," " apricot," " ma- France, two million dollars; and from Mexican terri- ple," " Teddy Bear," " blosse," " royal amber," and tory we drew one million dollars' worth. even " booz " and " champagne " ! And from each Arabian goat skins to the value of over one million shade thousands of pairs are being produced each week. dollars were sent to the shoe factories of this country. Brown, however, is not the only popular color in boots. Brazil, the Argentine Republic, Russia, and Great During the past year such specialties as " electric blue," Britain each duplicated this figure. China trebled it. " bronze Venetian," " dull cadet blue," " navy blue," France and Mexico both more than doubled it. In ad- " cedar," " citron green " and even shoes of a pro- dition to all this there were eleven million dollars' worth nounced straw color have come sharply to the fore, of shipments from India. Buffaloes have been driven and are selling well. from the West, but they are still plentiful in India. In Fourteen factories in Lynn, Massachusetts, are kept the month of October of last year more than eighty busy producing shoe polish and stains. thousand buffalo hides were imported from that coun- Even in the line of wooden shoes, American manu- try by American shoe manufacturers. facturers are springing forward, The time may even It is an actual fact that sole-leather is bringing a come when quaint old-fashioned Holland will get the higher market, price than good steak. Sole-leather greater share of her wooden footwear from Yankee easily brings forty cents a pound and " belting butts " workmen. fifty cents, steak ranging from sixteen to twenty-five The shoe specialist has invaded other fields. Electri- cents a pound ; so that, according to the present sched- cal shoes are now being regularly manufactured, and ule, the hide of a Western steer is easily worth more they are a marvel of skilful invention. One shoe in than its beef. each pair is made with a copper top piece on the heel, Doped leather " is becoming one of the much-dis- and a copper lining for the heel, connected by a small cussed features of modern shoe manufacture. A re- copper wire, and the other shoe is similarly equipped cent candidate for Congress embodied in his platform with zinc. An electric current from the earth to the a plank providing for the punishment of " counterfeit feet is thus established, imparting a vigorous stimu- shoe " manufacturers, the astonishing statement being lant to the circulation, and according to its inventors, made that shoes are now on the market with adulter- affording a substantial relief for rheumatism. ated soles through the mixture of glucose, starch filled One American factory is confining itself almost ex- " linings," and imitation leather " uppers." clusively to shoes for mountain climbing — and it is Adulterated Soles nearly always " rushed." At the Jamestown Exposi- The introduction of glucose into shoe manufacture tion an array of turtle-skin shoes was exhibited, which embodies curious features. Undoubtedly glucose curiously enough, are finding a ready sale in Africa, makes the leather go farther,— and it also shortens its in spite of the fact that the skin is tanned without even wear. And it does more. the claws being removed. Glucose absorbs moisture, and damp feet follow Out in Kansas there is a factory producing " cowboy from wet soles. The startling charge is made that a boots " exclusively — some two hundred pairs every constantly growing per cent of the winter grippe is week. It is not an uncommon occurrence for the pros- caused by " adulterated soles ; modern chemists vig- 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908 orously declare that it is as harmful to put glucose that the hun.an viscera has been admirably adapted for into a man's shoes as into his stomach. this work, and that each particle of nourishment taken Tradition has it that when King Philip of Spain took may be traced by analysis through the various stages cold because of damp shoes; he compelled the unfortu- of its assimilation in all its extended course through nate manufacturer to eat the aforesaid footwear! A the system. just, royal, and poetic punishment. If the shrewd old Did all this perfect adaptation just " happen so "? monarch had lived in the twentieth century, assuredly In reply to this question let us briefly consider some his " doped " leather diet would have become world- simple propositions. First of all, man's form was famous.— Hugh C. Weir, in the Technical World. either accommodated to the fashion of an already per- fected world, or the entire creation was prearranged with reference to God's representative who was to in- The Extent and Purpose of Creation — No. 3 habit and control it. To adopt either of these conclu- All Nature Adapted to Man's Necessities sions is to admit design, and establishes the molding No one knows just how much technical knowledge power of a personal Creator. David had of a human body's structure. But he must Again we know that we have no more control over have had some discernment of its wondrous form, to be the formation and growth of our own bodies than we able to express himself about it as his words reveal. have over those of the lower animals. In other words, Turning his thoughts heavenward, he reverently said : we can not add a single cubit to our statures by the " I will praise thee ; for I am fearfully and wonderfully wisest thoughts, or the most deeply laid plans. The made. Marvelous are thy works ; and that my soul ignorant savage maintains as perfect a bodily struc- knoweth right well." Ps. 139: 14. These words of ture as the most talented or educated. The fact that the psalmist imply that he well knew that nothing less some have knowledge of a body's minute parts, and of than the wisdom and skill of an infinite mind could the functions of these, is but proof that the human devise so complex, and yet so perfect, an organization. mind was made to follow the bent of the mind of Many, however, read the brief inspired account of the infinite Designer of these parts, and their func- man's creation, with hardly a thought of what was in- tions, because such knowledge is the same in each volved in the act. They simply gather the fact that case, except in degree. Being sure that we ourselves he was made from the " dust of the ground." What were not the designers, we may bow with reverence the result of this creative action proved, very few stop before him whose mind, we must be certain, originated to consider. But the bare act of building the man the pattern. was not the end of the proceeding. The structure thus Looking at the design of creation from a rational formed must be nourished. But how? His original view-point alone, the candid mind must admit that no element being of the earth, man made from it was human power built it. Taking under reflection again, therefore " earthy," and his support must consequently man's framework, we see all parts of it so formed and be contributed from the same source from which he joined together, as to give the greatest strength and himself sprang. To this end the body was adapted to movement where these are most needed. We also note gather up sufficient dust from time to time to replenish that the most essential organs have special protection. the constant waste of bone, sinew, and nerve. But The entire nervous system is distributed so as to give this it had not power to do directly, so the needed the most efficient service. The nerves are properly original element was, by God's great arrangement of covered in order to protect them against exposure and adaptation, first changed into vegetation. It then be- injury. All parts of the system are kept in order by came available for rebuilding waste tissue. Thus we the activity of their own supernatural agency. For in- are warranted in saying that grains, fruits, and vegeta- stance, the heart beats without our orders ; it provides bles are but so much transformed soil, conformed to for its own rest and repairs. The stomach sends the needs of human demands. needed material for all purposes, throughout the sys- Were it within the province of these studies, we tem without our knowledge. might here consider the reason why man's diet was, Yet strange to say, there are some so sordid in at the beginning, confined to the direct products of the thought as to contend that this wonderful combination soil, instead of letting these first pass into animal flesh, is but an accumulation of improvements which have and then giving the flesh to man for his sustenance. been going on for ages. We would not expect such From every consideration, it seems certain that man, to believe in a personal God, and of course not in an having been made in God's image, was to have the first inspired Bible. But when we are persuaded that the use of earth's products for his own sustenance, and human body is what it is because of the handiwork of that these were adapted to his own bodily needs at an infinite Mind, we are then prepared to accept his creation, rather than to receive them through a crea- written instructions for the regulations of our life- ture in every way inferior to himself. work. Let us, then, adhere strictly to that good old But be that as it may, let us return to the subject book, the Bible. J. 0. CORLISS. in hand. One wise provision worth considering is that which gives gratification to the partaker of proper nourishment. Without the preparatory influence of A Cure for Lonesomeness sun and moisture, the delicate flavors of natural foods, SOME one asked a lighthouse keeper at Arnagansett, which afford gustatory pleasure, would be absent, thus Long Island, if he didn't get lonely at his work. His depriving one of the enjoyment of eating, which is but eyes fairly danced as he answered, " No, indeed ! I another expression for appetite. Since we are per- never get lonesome since I saved my man." How suaded that every environment of man has been many had he saved? Just one! And that inspired him adapted to give him enjoyment, and prolong his life, so that, during the many dreary days that followed, he it is hardly necessary, in this connection, to study the felt no loneliness. Christian, have you saved your intricate mechanism by which food is utilized by the man? Nothing will so inspire you, and banish gloom body for the building up of itself. Yet it is certain and discouragement.— Selected.

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Over the Telephone " A Word to the Wise " I SENT a message all my own LITTLE owlet in the glen, By our new doorway telephone, I'm ashamed of you; But though I spoke as dear as clear, You are ungrammatical I could not make my broth& hear! In speaking as you do. " What did you say?" called Bob, the tease. You should say, " To whom ! to whom!" " Speak just a little louder, please!" Not, " To who! to who.!" I murmured soft as I knew how, Your small friend, Miss' Katy-did, " Mother is baking cookies now." May be green, 'tis true, And though I whispered every word, But you never heard her say That funny little brother heard l• "Katy do! She do!" — Youth's Companion. —St. Nicholas,

Too Beautiful to Kill " It 'most always rains when you don't want to have IN the Pittsburg Post is this story of Fergus, a it," sighed Connie. Scotch lad fourteen years old.. His father had given " And when it's your birthday," gobbed Nan. " And when you're going to dear Uncle Paul's," him a new rifle and a new canoe, and now in the Adi- rondacks, near Upper St. Regis Lake, he was expect- cried Ted. ing to shoot his first deer. On an August day he went Then the door flew open and Clement came in, sha- from camp with Calvin, the guide, and was about to king the ,rain from his 'hat and slipping off rubbers embark on the lake. and boots. It was so lovely that Fergus held his breath to look, " Well, isn't this a glorious rain! " he; cried. " Why, till all at once he felt Calvin's hand on his shoulder. the very trees are clapping their leaves for joy, and One look at the guide's face, and he knew that some- the flowers, are almost laughing outright 'Every man underlip was quivering. I met between here and the village had a broad smile At first Fergus heard nothing but his own heart on his face and called out : ' Won't this make the corn beats. Then, as he recovered himself a little, he could grow ! ' or, ' This will give the grass a start.' 'When I hear a rustle and an occasional crackle, and presently, came by Uncle Peter's, he was out in his garden, and looking up the bank, he discerned the swaying of a he said : tress de. Lawd ! de garden's pickin' right up, bush. Something was moving there. and de chillun is sabed from starbin'.' And the Widow Suddenly the bushes parted and a head looked Graham, who washes for people, to get bread and mo- through ! It was the head for which Fergus had lov- lasses for her three children, is so, happy to think ,her ingly and longingly dreamed, a beautiful antlered head cistern is running over, and she will not have to bring held proudly up, the eyes alert, the nostrils wide apart. all her water from the brook. Why ! I do believe you As the creature broke from cover, his mouth was open, youngsters are crying. What is it all about ? " he was hot and thirsty and eager to get at the water. Then 'the three children hung their heads for very " Does he see us ? " whispered Calvin. shame. Fergus shook his head. " We're not crying-- I don't s'pose,", said Connie. " Let him get well out 'of the bushes, then raise your " Not now, anyway." rifle," whispered the guide. " We're glad it rains," said Nail. " We' love to have Inch by inch Fergus had already lifted his rifle, and it — sometimes — don't we, Ted? " was now looking along it when the deer advanced, " Yes," said Ted, " we forgot that it was God that coming twenty feet nearer. Then assuring himself made it rain. I'm sorry I was cross about it." that all was safe, he stood, his ears at a sharp angle, " We need the rain as much as the sunshine," said directly facing Fergus. He could see the beautiful, Clement. " God knows best, and we must not be sel- scared eyes of the deer. fish." " Fire," said Calvin. Then the. sun shone from two pairs of brown eyes But instead, Fergus dropped his rifle to his side. and one of blue, Dicks Familj, Magazine. There was a 'sudden movement, a crashing of boughs, and the place was empty. A " Gift " Indeed " Why, Fergus ! " cried Calvin, disappointed and COMING out of the symphony concert the other day, amazed, why, Fergus ! " after listening to the magnificent playing of a celebrated He looked curiously into the boy's face and discov- violinist, says a writer in American,Messenger, I heard ered that each bright eye had a tear in it, and that the Caroline saying, " What a marveloUs gift he has ! The under lip was quivering. music ripples from the strings without any effort at " 0 Calvin! " cried Fergus, "I couldn't do it. I all. I wish I had such a gift ! I wouldn't practise hadn't the heart to do it. I'd die myself before I'd those horrid exercises every day ! " kill anything so beautiful.— Our Dumb Animals. It was the same way with young Lawrence as we came out of church last Sunday. " What an inspiring One Rainy Day sermon! What a wonderful gift for preaching Dr. " 0, DEAR ! 0, dear " cried three sad little voices Paull has ! All he has to dO is to stand up before the one June morning. For it was raining. Not a little multitude, and open his lips, and the eloquence pours rain when one can don rubbers and waterproof, and forth." run between the drops, arid have such fun, but a big Such estimates of the attainments of those who have downpOur, when it seemed as if a river was running achieved success in life are unjust, and they are dan- out of the sky. gerous to those who are looking forward to their own Then it begadto rain in the house from two pairs of life-work. Natural endowments without faithful en- brown eyes and one of blue. (Concluded on next page) 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SEPTEMBER 22, 1908

We stood on the banks of the river wide, Which flows from the throne in a crystal tide, ORECTI0NSYTROSE"POETRYnigREAPIN4 And I softly followed my shining guide • Over that blissful land. Still on through the ambient air we sped, A Moment in the Morning Till she laid her hand on my trembling head; " Behold the Ledger of Heaven," she said,— A MOMENT in the morning, ere the cares of day begin, And quick on my wondering view Ere the heart's wide door is open for the world to enter in ; There seemed to flash, like a ray of light, Ah, then alone with Jesus, in the silence of the morn, The mystic pen of an angel bright, In heavenly, sweet communion let your duty day be born. As he wrote in the ledger, pure and white, In the quietude that blesses with a prelude of repose, The record of life so true. Let your soul be soothed and softened, as the dew revives the rose. And every deed of my life was there,— A moment in the morning take your Bible in your hand, The careless word and the earnest prayer,— And catch a glimpse of glory from the peaceful, promised And some of the pages were white and fair, land; And others were soiled with sin. It will linger still before you when you seek the busy mart, And the thoughts of my heart that were long concealed And like flowers of hope will blossom into beauty in your Were written down, and all revealed, heart ; And 0, how I wished that the book were sealed, The precious words, like jewels, will glisten all the day, And the record were hid within! With a rare, effulgent glory that will brighten all the way. And my cheek was crimson, as one by one, When comes a sore temptation, and your feet are near a snare, I read the record of deeds I'd done, You may count them like a rosary, and make each one a And of victories lost, that I might have won, prayer. In the hours of mortal strife; A moment in the morning,— a moment, if no more,— Of the gentle words that I might have said,— Is better than an hour when the trying day is o'er. But ah! there were hasty words instead, 'Tis the gentle dew from heaven, the manna for the day; And now were the golden moments fled, If you fail to gather early — alas! it melts away. And mine was a misspent life. So, in the blush of morning take the offered hand of love, " 0, had I but known!" in my grief I cried, And walk in heaven's pathway and the peacefulness thereof. And weeping turned to the angel's side; — Selected. " I bring thee hope," said the shining guide, " Thy Saviour has prayed for thee. Friendship And thou shalt return to the earth again, AND what is friendship? Canst thou tell? And dwell once more 'mong the sons of men, 'Tis not But, 0! remember the angel's pen — A vortex deep and circling round to draw Ah ! what shall thy record be? " Unto its bosom all the joy of life. True friendship is an onward moving stream, With tears of joy at length I woke, That gives from out its overflow a wealth And rose from my couch, for the morn had broke. Of love. It is a plant whose root is twined " The Lord be praised!" were the words I spoke, Around the solid rock of confidence. " For the beautiful lesson given. It thrives in air that's free from every cloud, I will guard my lips with a jealous care, And must have perfect liberty. Its growth, will keep my heart from the tempter's snare. Though slow, is sure, perfecting day by day Lest sin be found on the pages fair, A beauty all its own, a loveliness Of the Record Book of heaven." E'en like the noble life of Him who had • My soul! how oft have the angels wept On earth a chosen friend, and who thus blessed Over the shameful record kept, The sacred tie. The friends of earth, though dear, While the daughters of Zion have idly slept, Should never be allowed to lead the heart Nor dreamed of their fearful doom. From God. True friends are those who seek to help O haste! for the moments are passing fast! Those whom they love, and let not self intrude, Ere the summer is ended, the harvest past, Or selfish ends be all their own. And should And the Ledger of Heaven is read at last, The golden beauty of a bright ideal And the King of kings shall come. Grow dim, 'tis sad; for never can the mind —Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle. Again see colors quite so bright, or paint A picture quite so fair; but even then 'Tis well to gather all the sunshine bright, A " Gift " Indeed And scatter it with lavish hand o'er all You hold most dear; for truth abides though flesh (Concluded from preceding page) Is weak, and human hearts are frail. The Friend deavor will not bring success. Many young people of Who never proves untrue knows all our pain, brilliant talents are meeting with disappointment and And stands with outstretched arms, waiting to reign disaster because they do not realize this. Within our hearts, the One supreme, the One Before whom every knee shall bow, the One Our minister's son took a wiser course. Some years To whom be praise and glory evermore. ago he discovered that he had a talent for drawing. —Eliza H. Morton. His grandmother said it was wonderful, and the girls besought him to make pen pictures of roses in their The Ledger of Heaven albums. But Edward was not deceived thereby. He O THE wonderful ledger the angels keep, And the watchful eyelids that never sleep, began to work. There were many difficulties in the And the tireless penmen that watch and weep way, but he persevered. The minister moved away Over the words they write! How oft are the hearts of the angels pained, from our village, and I heard nothing from Edward And how oft are the pages soiled and stained, until a few days ago. I took up one of the great How much is lost, and how little gained, magazines, and, in looking over the illustrations to a In struggling for the right ! story, I found the name (I have changed it a little) 'Tis thus I mused in the twilight gray, " Edward Young," in a corner of each picture. In the deep'ning gloom at the close of day, Ere I reverently knelt by my couch to pray, No young man will make a greater mistake than And laid me down to rest. he who thinks that his " gift " will make his life-work And I dreamed that a glorious angel fair, Had borne me away through the boundless air, easy. If you have a " gift," it is for development, To the pearly gates of that city where not for neglect. The way to success is through patient, Dwelleth the good and blest. persevering work. Addison says : " I never knew an 0 the peace I felt! As my mortal tongue early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of Joined in the songs that the seraphs sung, his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of As back were the massive portals flung, At the touch of the angel's hand! " bad luck."— Young People's Weekly. SEPTEMBER 22, 19o8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 11

Service " EVERY man is a servant. Every life is a service. The Christian, therefore, does not cease to be a servant. He only changes masters. His life is no longer nega- tive ; it is positive in growth and service. No man can escape service. Every man is counting for good M. E. KERN . . Chairman or ill because of the kind of service to which he is MATILDA ERICKSON . Secretary giving his life. But Christian living involves the place for sympathy, the opportunty to help, and the duty to Study for the Missionary Volunteer Society serve. Therefore no man truly bears his own burden " Dawn on the Hills of T'ang "— China, No. 2 except as he helps others in the bearing of their bur- Program dens." That quotation is worth thinking over. You OPENING EXERCISES. will find the original thought in the sixth chapter of CHINA : — Galatians. We are saved to serve. " Come and see " Non-Christian Missions. —" go and tell." The Master says, " Son, give me Early Christian Missions. thine heart." He is calling for heart service. He is Robert Morrison and Other Workers. calling for men — for young men. " Unto you, 0 Medical Missions. men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man." Sia Sek Ong. What is the call ? " Present your bodies a living sac- Pastor Hsi. rifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reason- Non-Christian Missions able service." Paul, in speaking of the work of the Buddhism showed to China the loveliness of an un- Macedonians, said, " They first gave their own selves selfish life, the hideous lineaments of lust and passion, unto the Lord." Our greatest need to-day is entire and the reality of an invisible spiritual world. There conversion, entire consecration, the giving of our "own were many secret sects whose doctrines were seemingly selves unto the Lord." preparing China for something better. Some of these Again, the Master calls, " Son, go work to-day in doctrines taught by these sects were " charity, the at- my vineyard." Individual responsibility is here empha- tainment of perfect self-control, patience, and absti- sized by the Lord himself. Trying to shirk respon- nence from gambling, tobacco, opium,"— dim gropings sibility is a sign of weakness in us. We can not afford after the great all-Father, whose name is " writ large " to be indifferent to the work before us ; such an atti- in the heavens, and whose handiwork is in the earth. tude is criminal. In the fifth chapter of Judges we According to a stone tablet in Kai-feng Fu, the re- read of the curse that came upon the people of Meroz religion of the Jews entered China in 206 B. c. A because they did not come up to " the help of the Lord number of centuries later, a synagogue was erected against the mighty." They were cursed and destroyed in Kai-feng Fu. The tablet says that our first ances- for treating the great work with indifference. They tor was Adam. Abraham and Moses are also men- fell through negligence. No soul can bear the thought tioned. The Jews seem to have been numerous during of being cursed, of being lost. But the only alternative, the fourteenth century. Sad to say, their influence the only escape, is through service. does not seem to have helped the Chinese very much. Beware of Negligence The present condition of the Jews who remain in Kai- We must not allow the spirit of unconcern to dwell feng Fu is pitiable. in us at all. " Unconcern is a crime." (1 Thess. 5 : 6 The Mohammedans came into China by caravans —" sleep "— unconcern, indifference.) Individual re- from the north, and by sea from the south. Many sponsibility is a vital thing, and must be recognized if Mussulmans, Syrians, Arabs, and Persians settled in we desire to be Christians and follow our Master. A the country, intermingling with the Chinese, and losing Christian is a light-bearer, a light-holder. He does their racial peculiarities. According to the latest esti- not give a spasmodic light, but is a fixed luminary; mate, furnished twenty years ago, there are thirty mil- and, like those planetary bodies we see at night, shines lions of Mohammedans in the empire. The literati, or through the gloom, dispelling the darkness and bring- scholarly class of China, have made a rigid rule that ing " rays of hope " to struggling souls. So wherever the Koran must not be translated. This has kept the there is unconcern and worldly indifference to spiri- religion of Islam away from the more educated. tual things, " let your light shine," and let it be a Early Christian Missions " clear shining." Let it be a positive light — a posi- As early as 505 A. D. the Nestorians entered China. tive service. They spread from the Great Wall to the Pacific Ocean. We need power for service. Many are praying for Their faith received favor. Churches were erected this power. God has all power, but he has no power throughout the empire ; and while the Nestorian doc- to waste. Are we ready and willing to serve ? God trine prevailed, the empire became enriched, and " tran- has no power to give one who is not willing to serve. quility abounded." Perhaps the decay of the Nes- " Just to the extent that a man truly gives his life torian religion is due to compromise. Little work to God, God will give his power to that man. A heart was done by them among the common people. Christ that is ready to serve, ready to obey, ready to follow was looked upon as less than divine. How much it him, is the condition." " What the church of God means to any church, to any individual, to be true to needs is a baptism of power; but in order to have it, truth, even if favor is lost by so doing! there must first be a baptism of the spirit of readiness Catholicism has penetrated the farthest corners of to serve." God is ready, waiting for us to be " will- the empire. In 1328, after a few years of labor, John ing " to meet the conditions. Each of us has at of Montecorvine, Rome's great apostle to the Chinese, least one gift. Let us reconsecrate it to-day. " Stir it had " converted more than thirty thousand infidels? " up." " Rekindle " is the thought,—" stir it into flame," Xavier followed with his tireless Jesuits, and Picci won — into a light. ERNEST LLOYD. his way into the very heart of the empire by trickery 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SEPTEMBER 22, 1908 and diplomacy. The Jesuits have left marks of thought bring all the sick people in the village to him. Every and study behind them in China, among which are sixth case was one of eye disease. some remarkable bronze astronomical instruments. But the way was not always pleasant. Sometimes In 1724, on account of the rivalry of priests, the op- they would journey to the surrounding villages. They position of popes to priests, and vice versa, the propa- would be told to go back to Hankow, and preach their gation of Catholicism was forbidden. Since 1858, Jesus there. Once hard clods were thrown at them, however, the Catholic missions have prospered. This and Mr. John was wounded and nearly fainted from people has been zealous in teaching the Chinese the loss of blood. Later these same people raised money care of their homes, and in providing for the poor and to build two chapels in their town for the preaching orphans. Many so-called " converts " are merely ac- of this same Jesus. cessions in number, and have been gained through such The Lord works more wonderfully than we can ruses as are not consistent with real Christianity. ask or think. Mr. Mackenzie was working in Tiensin. Robert Morrison and Other Workers The wife of Li Hung Chang, the great statesman, lay Robert Morrison was the pioneer of Protestant mis- at the point of death. Some one asked Mr. Li why he sions in China. He entered the Celestial empire in did not get the foreign doctors. Mr. Li shook his 1807. What Carey was to India, Morrison was to head. It would be quite impossible for a Chinese lady China. He was not a diplomat, like Picci, nor would of rank to be attended by a foreigner. But common- he compromise, but whatever benefited the Chinese sense triumphed, and Dr. Mackenzie and Miss Dr. or the foreigner, received his earnest support. After Howard were sent for. Lady Li recovered. The re- his death, work in the missions went hard. The Opium sult was that she established a woman's hospital, and war relieved the situation. Five ports were opened to put Dr. Howard at the head of it. Here, while the foreigners. Later, treaties were made by which the body is being healed, the spirit is ministered unto. The missionary could enter any port of the empire. sick ones are told of the Great Physician, who heals the Morrison was aided in translating the Scriptures by wounded heart and the sin-sick soul. Dr. Milne. The Bible was published in 1818. Gutalaff Dr. Mackenzie contracted smallpox, and died after and Methurst did a good work in distributing tracts a few days' illness. From the palace of the viceroy and books along the coast, and in preaching as they down to the poorest hovel there was sorrow. Even journeyed. the stolid Chinese felt that they had lost a friend. He The missionaries did not have an easy time. In left behind' him a wife and a little child, and an old reading of their trials we are reminded of the suffer- father in the home land. He left the country for which ings of the first great apostle to the Gentiles. 1 Cor. he gave his life, and he left an opportunity for some I I : 24-28. Dr. Ashmore says : " We were mobbed one to take up the work which he so patiently laid in the fu city, mobbed in the district cities, mobbed in down. the large towns. We got so used to being pelted with Sia Sek Ong mud, that it seemed strange if we escaped our regular Sia Sek Ong, the eldest of five brothers, was born dose." When they were driven from one place, they in Fuchau, China. He received his early education went to another. But they did not leave the country. in a Chinese common school, and resolved to be a great The natives who became converted under such cir- and good man. When he was sixteen years old, his cumstances clung with tenacity to the God of heaven. mother died, and soon after this Sia Sek Ong began to The famines have given great opportunities for the teach school. missionaries to show the character of Christianity. It was during that year's teaching that he first heard Some of the missionaries have given their lives in aid- the story of the cross. To this devout worshiper of ing the suffering. Distrust and malice give way before Confucius, life had seemed a vain search after some- real, true, Christlike deeds. In 18go there were about thing too far away to reach, but the gospel of Jesus thirty thousand Protestant native communicants. brought wonderful peace to his troubled heart. His Among the special agencies which have been of one desire was to tell others the story of redeeming great benefit to the Chinese, are the Tract Society of love. In 1888 Mr. Sia came to America, and became London, the Society for the Diffusion of Christian and much interested in our educational system. On his General Literature, and a number of book-lending return to China he lectured upon his travels in the societies, which make books accessible to hitherto un- United States. This faithful soldier of the cross died reached classes. The mission presses have done com- on March 24, 1897. mendable work, and the Young Men's Christian Asso- Pastor Hsi ciation as well as the Student Volunteers for Foreign Pastor Hsi received a liberal Chinese education, and Missions are carrying on work of various kinds in the early in life gained a wide reputation in the law courts. empire. He was a Confucianist ; but while still a young man, The China Inland Mission has done noble work in the wife whom he loved died, and it was in the shadow the evangelization of central and western China. It of that deep sorrow that life's most serious problems sent forth its first missionary in 1863. J. Hudson Tay- claimed his consideration. What was the purpose of lor founded it, and has given his whole effort to it. life? Whence came he? Whither was he going? Its missionaries receive no salary ; yet in 1893 it had Confucianism had not satisfied his hungry soul. " It five hundred ninety-two workers. had given him no light to illumine the darkness to the Medical Missions grave ; no comfort for an aching heart." Years passed. Peter Parker was the first medical missionary to Living seemed in vain; he was now thirty, and lie had China. But it was left to John K. Mackenzie to do neither found God nor attained unto his ideals. 0, a work which most wonderfully opened up the way those decisive hours! Suddenly he plunged so deeply for missions. He began work in China with Griffith into sin that one trembles to think how nearly the John, who had already opened up the work in Hankow. enemy had compassed his destruction. Friends ad- As soon as it was known in a place that Mr. John's vised that he relieve his misery with a whiff of opium. companion was a doctor, there would be a rush to Fatal delusion ! For ten long years he reaped the bitter SEPTEMBER 22, 1908 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 13 fruits of the misery and degradation of an opium reading robs the memory of its power to grasp and to smoker. hold; but systematic study, into which the whole mind But finally, in 1875, light broke through the dense enters enthusiastically, increases the mental and moral darkness. Dark despair gave way to buoyant hope. stature of the reader. The gospel had come into his village, and no.w it was To aid the youth in good reading, the Missionary that he went forth in the power of Prince Immanuel. Volunteer Department is offering reading courses. His faith was almost unwavering, and he talked much The lessons assigned will assure systematic study, and with his Father in prayer. As an evangelist he was the test questions in each lesson demand that the read- remarkable; but it is perhaps because of efforts to ing be done carefully. crush the opium curse that we especially remember Course No. 2 him. The refuges in many of China's provinces are his The course this year consists of two books. " Great monument. For years he was an indefatigable Controversy " will occupy nearly three fourths of the worker, but in 1896 he laid down life's burdens. He time. In this wonderful book, history and prophecy was an evidence of what China's sons may do for clasp hands, and give a panoramic view of events re- China. MAY G. COLE. lating to God's people from the dawn of the Christian era until the final consummation. Every youth should The Missionary Volunteer Reading Courses be familiar with the historical facts and the gospel truths with which this book is replete. Says the Mas- EVERY earnest soul may advance continually in the ter, " Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make pathway to intellectual attainment. God has ideals for you free." the youth to-day that are " higher than the highest The other book is " Daybreak in the Dark Conti- human thought can reach." His ideals are enablings nent." The author has made a careful study of Africa, to those who yield wholly to him. Some are striving and his book visualizes splendidly many great events, to attain. Are you pressing onward to a better goal? many unsolved problems, and many historic move- Remember that — ments. It gives much information on numerous ques- "The heights by great men reached and kept; Were not attained by sudden flight; tions as to races, customs, politics, and the missionary But they, while their companions slept, outlook. Were toiling -upward in the night." The course will be conducted through the YOUTH'S In this upward toil, few companions render better INSTRUCTOR. It will begin the first week in October, service than do good books. They make the poorest and continue for eight months. All who desire to take of us heirs to the wisdom of all time. With them we it should send in their names for enrolment to their may penetrate the heavenly expanse ; with them we respective conference Missionary Volunteer secretaries. may follow the explorer's course or the warrior's raid ; No tuition for the work is required. Three reviews we may look back through the avenues of ages, or we will be given, and the Young People's Missionary may look into the future, and- behold what is yet to Volunteer Department will grant a certificate to each come. They comfort us in our hour of distress, and one who satisfactorily completes the course. revive our courage when we are in the shadow of de- We hope many will join us in the course this year. spair. Says Sir William Waller, " In my study I am You are busy ; so were Lincoln, Greeley, and Garfield. sure to converse with none but wise men, but abroad Yet they sandwiched into 'the hard, work-filled. days it is impossible to avoid the society of fools." Men a few minutes for study. This is the way many of our and women, whose lives have bettered the world, pay most useful men and women are made. heavy tribute to good books. Such books have helped Plan to take the course: Do not follow the path of them, first in determining to make the most of them- least resistance. Progress is better than pleasure. selves and their opportunities, and then in doing so. Such books will help you. You have read of good books inspiring young men For the Beauty That Was to Come and women to be a blessing in the world. You recall I was some years ago in,a large garden of very how they influenced Moffat, Livingstone, Wesley, and beautiful flowers. When the gardener had showed me a host of others. Years have robbed these books of no all his treasures, he said there was one flower I had power. A few months ago the conversation of some not seen that he prized above all others. Then he students drifted into a discussion of the value of good took me to an obscure corner of the garden, and stoop- books. Among the many who expressed gratitude one ing down, scraped away some of the soil, and exposed young man said, " ' Steps to Christ' gave me .hope a gnarled and twisted root. That was the flower when I was about to give up everything." prized so highly. It had no attraction for me, but I Napoleon said, " Show me a man that reads good ktiew not the beauty it contained ; the gardener knew. books and I will show you a man that moves the By and by, under the influence of sun and rain, it world." would take on wonderful beauty. So the gardener Clay remarked: " When a boy, I was poor, and my loved it, not for what it was now, but for what he mother was very poor ; but she was never too poor to knew it would become. So I think the Lord loves us, buy her boy a good book, and to this more than any- sometimes, not for what we are, but for what he thing else, I owe my success in life." knows 'his grace can make of us. What beauty he Franklin exclaimed : " A dollar in the head is worth sometimes does unfold from materials that would five in the pocket and you might say fifty on the back, seem to others unpromising! — Christian Herald. because that in the pocket will get out, that on the back will wear off, but that in the head grows sharper by Thanksgiving constant use." 0 Goo! I thank thee for each sight The dividend we draw from time invested in reading Of beauty that thy hand doth give,— For sunny skies, and air, and light; good books depends upon the thoroughness and O God! I thank thee that I live. thoughtfulness with which we pursue them. Hasty — Caroline A. Mason. 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SEPTEMBER 22, 1908

congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great : for the palace is not for man, but for the Lord God. . . . And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day. unto the Lord ? " Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the cap- I — David's Preparation for the Temple and His tains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of Death the king's work, offered willingly." They gave much (October 3) gold and silver, and those who had precious stones, LESSON SCRIPTURE : I Chron. 28 ; 29. gave them. " Then the people rejoiced, for that they MEMORY VERSE : " But who am I, and what is my offered willingly, because with perfect heart they of- people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after fered willingly to the Lord : and David the king also this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine rejoiced with great joy." own have we given thee." r Chron. 29: 14. 7. Then David prayed and thanked the Lord that The Lesson Story he had made them able and willing to give so much r. Solomon had been anointed king over all Israel. for his service. He humbly said, " All things come of David was old, and knew that he. must soon die. He thee, and of thine own have we given thee." He asked had much he wished to say to the people before his that the people might have hearts to serve the Lord, death, so he appointed a great meeting in Jerusalem, and that his son Solomon might be obedient. Read to which he invited the princes of the tribes, the cap- all of this wonderful prayer in your Bible. tains, his officers and mighty men, and his stewards 8. After this the people made Solomon king the who had charge of all his wealth. second time, and he became the wisest ruler of Israel. 2. " Then David the king stood up upon his feet, David died in a good old age, " full of days, riches, and said, ' Hear me, my brethren, and my people : As and honor," after being king over Israel forty years. for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest • Questions for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the 1. Who had been. anointed king over Israel? What footstool of our God, and had made ready for the build- did David know? Why did he appoint a meeting in ing: but God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an Jerusalem? Whom did he invite to attend this meet- house for my name, because thou hast been a man of ing? war, and hast shed blood. . . . And he said unto me, 2. What did David tell the people he had in his Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my heart to do? Why did he not build a house for the courts : for I have chosen him to be my son, and I Lord? Whom did God choose to do this work? What will be his father. Moreover, I will establish his king- did the Lord say concerning Solomon's kingdom? dom forever, if he be constant to do my command- What did David tell the people to seek and to keep? ments and my judgments, as at this day. Now there- Why ? fore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the 3. What charge did David give Solomon at this Lord, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek time? Why did he tell him to take heed? What did for all the commandments of the Lord your God : that he tell him to build ? ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an in- 4. What did David give Solomon? What instruc- heritance for your children after you forever." tion did he give concerning the priests and Levites? 3. " And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the What had David done toward building the house of God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart the Lord? What did he give at this time? How did and with a willing mind : for the Lord searcheth all he say he had prepared for the building? Tell how hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the he knew just how the house and its furnishings should thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; be made. but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever. 5. What further advice did David give Solomon? Take heed now ; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build Who did he say would help him? an house for the sanctuary : be strong, and do it." 6. What did David tell the people concerning Solo- 4. Then David gave to Solomon patterns of all the mon? What question did he ask? What did the peo- different parts of the house he was about to build, ple give to help build the temple? How did David and and he told him how the priests and Levites should all the people feel after making offerings to the Lord? serve when it was finished. For many years David had Repeat the memory verse. saved gold, silver, and precious stones to be used in the 7. After this, what did David do? What did he temple. He gave just the right amount of gold for say concerning the gifts he and the people had made? the lamps, candlesticks, tables, basins, bowls, and cups. For what did he pray ? He also furnished the gold to make the cherubim and 8. After this, what did the people do? Who was the altar of incense. He said he had prepared with all the wisest king that ruled over Israel ? What is said his might for the house of God, and that the Lord of David at his death? How long did he reign? made him understand in writing just how the heavenly pattern should be followed. The Peace of God 5. " And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong Do you inquire for the Thames? You shall find it and of good courage, and do it : fear not, nor be dis- flowing in its own bed in the thick, black night, as well mayed : for the Lord God, even my God, will be with as in the clear, bright day. You shall discover the noble thee ; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou river when it mirrors the stars or sends back the sheen hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the moon, as well as when multitudes of eyes gaze of the Lord." He also said that every willing, skilful upon the pompous pageantry of civic procession at mid- man would assist him, and that the princes and people day. You may see its waves in the hour of tempest would be wholly at his command. by the lightning's flash, as well as in the day of calm 6. " Furthermore David the king said unto all the when the sun shineth brightly on them. Ever is the SEPTEMBER 22, 19o8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 15

river in its place. And even thus, come night, come sufficient for every soul to meet the call and attain the day, come sickness, come health, come what will, the character to which he is called. peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will 2. " The word that was spoken to Jesus at the keep the Christian's heart and mind, through Jesus Jordan, ' This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well Christ.- Spurgeon. pleased,' embraces humanity. God spoke to Jesua as our representative. With all our sins and weaknesses, we are not cast aside as worthless. ' He hath made us THE YOVTI=16 accepted in the Beloved.' The glory that rested upon Christ is a pledge of the love of God for us. . . . His love has encircled man, and reaches highest heaven. The light which fell from the open portals upon the head of our Saviour, will fall upon us as we pray for help to resist temptation. The voice which spoke to Studies on the Epistle to the Ephesians Jesus says to every believing soul, ' This is my beloved I - The Election by Grace. Eph. 1: 1-6 child, in whom I am well pleased.' "-"Desire of (October 3) Ages," page 113. LESSON SCRIPTURE : Eph. I : 1-6. MEMORY VERSE : " For the Lord God is a sun and After Thirteen Years shield : the Lord will give grace and glory : no good THIRTEEN years ago two boys in their teens, under thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." anarchist influence, it is believed, killed the mayor of Ps. 84: II. Kinsley, Iowa. They were sentenced to death, but the Questions Kansas law requires the signature of the governor to a 1. To whom is this epistle addressed? From what death-warrant, and all recent governors of Kansas have view-point does the author write? By what is he an refused to sign death-warrants. The boys have grown apostle? Eph. 1:1. to manhood in the prison at Lansing. Recently they 2. What is God's will concerning each of us? were released from prison. They owed their release Thess. 4: 3. in large part to the following poem, written by one of 3. How is this sanctification wrought in us? Heb. them, Carl Arnold. In the New York Herald ap- 13 : 20, 21 ; Phil. 2 : 13. peared an interesting story of young Arnold and his 4. Repeat the apostle's salutation. From what literary work in prison, and one who reads the story source does this grace and peace come to us? Eph. can hardly fail to share in the governor's sympathy, I : 2. and to rejoice in the pardon he has issued. The poem 5. How abundantly does the Lord desire to supply is called : - us with grace and peace ? 2 Peter I : 2, 3. Man to Man 6. How may this peace become a personal exiieri- I can not fawningly implore ence? Rom. 5 : 1. As feeble, false hearts can; 7. What is the effect of this experience in the But in humility before The power that bars my prison door, heart? Rom 15 : 13 ; Isa. 32: 17. I plead as man to man. 8. What measure of spiritual blessings have already Oft folly more than vice appears been bestowed upon us ? Eph. I : 3. In errors we have made; 9. How abundantly has he promised to supply our The ideals that the man reveres needs ? Phil. 4: 19. Is not the dream of early years - 1o. What choice has God made for us? When was Youth's brief delusions fade. this choice made ? Eph. I : 4. Though hearts embittered still retain 1. What assurance is given us that this purpose is A grudge for old mistakes, Excessive penalties are vain : to be realized by his people? Eph. 5 : 25-27. The long monotony of pain 12. Unto what have we been predestinated? Ac- No restitution makes. cording to whose will ?. Through whom ? Eph. I : 5. The ancient " eye for eye " decree 13. Through what act on our part does this predes- God has himself destroyed; tination, or election, become a personal experience? Still speaks that voice from Calvary. Shall Shylocks with their ghoulish plea 2 Thess. 2 : 13 ; I Peter 1: 2 ; note I. Make this commandment void? 14. Through whom only are we accepted as chil- dren ? Eph. 1 : 6; note 2. Aye, blessed are the merciful ! 0 Christian heart, relent! Notes For sins of folly, faults of will, 1. To predestinate, or foreordain, means to mark I kneel at Mercy's tribunal, out, define, or determine beforehand. God has the one A contrite penitent. standard character of holiness, the one ever all-glori- Long have I been with Sorrow. Long ous example, his Son Christ Jesus, reflecting always The agonizing years, Have held no freight of love, and song, all the fulness of the light of his righteousness. God And laughter; only pain, and wrong, also in the beginning chose characters for his heritage, And penitence, and tears. each character righteous in the righteousness of God, The coarser soul but lightly feels yet having its own individuality, manifesting one or The daily dole of ill ; more of the many beauties of him in whom all the But what distress each hour reveals For him who in his heart conceals fulness dwells even as each color in the rainbow re- Some aspirations still! veals some of the special beauties of the light. God For home and love and liberty chose these characters before the foundation of the We toil as free men can. world. The names of those characters were written O hand of fate, that bars to me in the Lamb's book of life. Rev. 13 : 8. He has called, The gates of opportunity, I plead as man to man! and is calling, to those characters, and his blessing is - Golden Age. 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SEPTEMBER 22, 19o8

in the interest of peace among men to oppose every The Youth's Instructor attempt to force into the work of the public school the ISSUED TUESDAYS BY THE teaching of religious dogmas. In the Constitution of the United States the founder very judiciously decreed REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN. the separation of church and state. If we permit any TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. deviation from this wholesome principle, we open a very Pandora's box of evils ; if we give a fanatic FANNIE DICKERSON CHASE EDITOR (radical or conservative) a finger, he will want your whole hand, then the arm, and finally the entire indi- ihthstription gates vidual." YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 SIX MONTHS .5o Thoughts From Horace Mann THREE MONTHS .25 To FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND CANADA 1.50 SELF-IMPROVEMENT must precede all other improve- ment. CLUB RATE We put things in order; God does the rest. Lay an Five or more to one address, each • $ .65 iron bar east and west ; it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south, and it is. Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, at the post-office As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple at Washington, D. C., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. A Suggestion No longings, no night-watchings, no aspirations, will ever enable us to see one inch beyond the capacity ELDER ENOCH'S article, found on the third page, of our glass. is worthy of a thoughtful reading. So is the one by The most formidable attribute of temptation is its in- Brother Rogers,. on " The Children of Nayassaland." creasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every The suggestion made by Brother Rogers on the ad- act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. visability of devoting a column in the INSTRUCTOR tO It is like the letting out of waters — where a drop can questions and answers to be conducted by the readers go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation sub- of the paper and our foreign missionaries, is an ac- jects himself to the law of falling bodies. ceptable one. The editor will be very glad to devote space to such a purpose. Any question of worth pertaining to mission work How Jehovah Stood by an Indian in foreign fields sent to the editor of the INSTRUCTOR THE Comanche Indians have not the Bible in their will be forwarded to some of our missionaries. own language, but one of their number had heard the truth from the lips of a missionary, and had given his heart to God. All his friends cast him off. Even Public Schools to be Reformed his wife stood afar. He prayed thus : " Father, I am THE National New Education League is an organ- one of your children. You have many in this world. ization, whose purpose is to reform the present public I am lonesome, and I long to hear a word from these school system. It promises to give an " improved edu- brothers and sisters of mine, but I can not write. Ask cation, broader and better, in quality and power, ethical one of your children to write a letter to the brother and esthetic as well as intellectual, physical, and indus- who is trying to walk a new way." While the Indian trial, for the whole people, not only for five or ten per was yet speaking, a minister read the account of his cent who now obtain an appreciable degree of general conversion. An hour later the letter was on the way. culture and power." When the Indian heard the letter, he said, " When all The league now contemplates establishing a model my friends leave me, the Lord is still near, and how school near Chicago, in which " a faculty of experi- quickly he answers when I speak to him."— Ella M. enced educators of the rational, new educational school Carithers. of pedagogic philosophy and practise shall find an op- portunity to prove to the educational profession and authorities, including the normal schools, and to the The New United States History whole American people, that the consistent and con- THE " 'United States History in the Light of Proph- scientious application of the said rational principles, ecy," by Prof. F. S. Bunch may be used as a text- methods, and means will give children of average nor- book in our schools this coming year. On account of mal qualities in a twelve-grade course (from about the delays the book has not yet been completed, and so fourth to the sixteenth years) an amount of knowl- can not be sent out in bound form this year. How- edge approximately that obtained at the age of eigh- ever, very nearly two hundred pages of the book will teen years in the present high scools, but a far better• be ready for use at the beginning of the school year, development of their qualities and powers, including and the balance of the work will be forwarded to the those of character." teachers in due time, so that there will be no interrup- Holds Right View of Vital Principle tion in carrying forward the class work during the The statement of the president of the league, C. H. year. There will be about three hundred fifty pages Doerflinger, relative to religious teaching in the pub- in the book, and the instalments will be forwarded, lic schools, is as pointed as it is true. He says : " We post-paid, at a price of one dollar for the complete propose that every teacher in every public school shall work. Quite a number of our teachers have used the be in duty bound to use every opportunity presented book as far as printed, and spoken very highly of it. during school work to develop the pupils' moral in- Orders for the book should be sent to Prof. M. E. stincts, to cultivate the application of the golden rule, Cady, College Place, Washington, as it is being printed and a strong sense of duty ; and we exhort our readers by the Walla Walla College Press.